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  8 January 2019
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A missionary says: "father, why did God allow me to be born in South Sudan?" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "I arrived in South Sudan in Juba in January 2015, where we have the only home of the Friars Minor of the country. At the beginning we were 5 friars, two from Italy, one from Slovakia, Australia an ...
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  8 January 2019
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The Bishops warn: "Do not irritate the population, proclaim the truth" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "It is the irregularities that would irritate the population and the most serious thing that could lead the Congolese people to revolt would be to publish results which do not conform to the tr ...
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  8 January 2019
  ASIA/IRAQ - Controversy on sales and demolition of churches. The response of the Chaldean Patriarchate Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The news on the sale of two churches in Baghdad are fueling controversies involving the local Christian communities, also highlighting contrasts between ecclesial hierarchies and Christians invo ...
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  8 January 2019
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The Islamabad Declaration: "a step to defeat extremism" Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The Declaration of Islamabad is a step in the right direction. We need to develop it to improve the image of the country: this is the way forward: government and opposition must work togethe ...
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  8 January 2019
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Nicaragua crisis returns to OAS on January 11 Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Archbishop of Managua and president of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN), after Mass last Sunday, 6 January, said that it will be necessary to analyze and imp ...
• 7 January 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Port Blair Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 6 January 2019 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Port Blair, India, presented by H.E. Msgr. Aleixo Das Neves Dias, S.F.X. (SL) (Agenzia Fi ...
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  7 January 2019
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Comboni Missionaries attacked and robbed in their community Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "On 5 January 2019, the Foyer Community of the Comboni Missionary Sisters in Bangui, in Central Africa, was attacked and robbed by a gang of about 8-9 people – said the Superior General of the ...
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  7 January 2019
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Imam of al Azhar at the "inauguration" of the Cathedral and Mosque in the new administrative capital Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of the Sunni University of al Azhar, led by the Grand Imam Ahmed al Tayyb, also took part together with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisi at the "official inauguration" of the n ...
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  7 January 2019
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - After 525 years, faith must always be "announced with courage and lived with love" Puerto Plata (Agenzia Fides) - The many sufferings of the Haitian people who continue to suffer are reason of concern. Haitians have been welcomed by the Catholic Church in the Dominican Republic "because they are brothe ...
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  7 January 2019
  ASIA/INDIA - Assembly of India’s Latin-rite Bishops on "The joy of the Gospel" Chennai (Agenzia Fides) - "The joy of the Gospel" is the central theme of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) of the Latin-rite, held in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, from 8 to 14 January 2019. As reported to Agenz ...
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  5 January 2019
  AFRICA/GHANA - The care of the Guanellian missionaries towards the disabled in Africa Adidome - School and work: along these lines the Fathers of the Opera Don Guanella have been carrying out a project of evangelization and charity for young people with disabilities in Adidome for eight years, in the dioc ...
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  5 January 2019
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Promoting harmony in a multireligious society: the commitment of Christians Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The baptized in Malaysia are committed to promoting interreligious harmony in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious country. As Agenzia Fides learns, various activities were organized at Chris ...
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  5 January 2019
  AFRICA/LIBYA - A mass grave of 34 Ethiopian Christians executed by Islamic State militants has been discovered in Libya Sirte (Agenzia Fides) - The government authorities of the Libyan national agreement have announced the discovery of a mass grave containing the remains of 34 Ethiopian Christians killed in 2015 by jihadists affiliated to ...
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  5 January 2019
  VATICAN - The Secretary General of Holy Childhood: "Thanks to the encounter with Jesus one becomes a missionary: this is what the children live" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "When Missionary Childhood Day was established on 4 December 1950 by Pope Pius XII, all countries were asked to identify a date to be dedicated to Holy Childhood, but freedom was left. Many ...
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  5 January 2019
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Anniversary of the first Mass celebrated in America: the benefits of the proclamation of the Gospel are still lived today Puerto Plata (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church concludes today, Saturday, January 5, 2019, the celebrations of the 525th anniversary of the first Mass in the American continent, officiated in Isabela, Puerto Plata, o ...